On the eve of Night of Champions,

WWE was in Riyadh for Smackdown.

As you could tell, it is not even 5 o'clock in the afternoon here in the East Coast.

And what I did was what many people did,

which was used my trusty VPN to watch the show,

which was airing at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on Netflix in other

places like Canada, which is where I became an honorary citizen of today when I connected

to a Canadian server.

And that is where I watched SmackDown.

And I was very hopeful when they opened the show with Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.

I've been waiting for this

match for a long time. And this was announced on very short notice because Cody only qualified

for the finals of the King of the Ring on Monday. So technically this match isn't even, I mean,

hasn't even been on the books for a week. And we're finally getting our first Cody Rhodes-Randy

Orton match. So I was looking

forward to seeing a face-to-face between the two of them here on this show. That's how we were

going to kick things off. And it didn't quite go as planned. Because after Cody Rhodes comes

out and Randy Orton comes out, Randy is about to speak. All of a sudden, the feed cuts out. And I'm watching a screen

that says, we'll be right back. Yeah, I think of those old television sitcoms from the 1980s when

they would go to commercial and you'd have that one screen, we'll be back after these messages.

Only they never came back. Or at least they did eventually come back,

but not for over half an hour. And I did not get to see Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton have their

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